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Editorial
. 2021 Sep;14(9):1800-1803.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.04.002. Epub 2021 Jun 16.

The Cardiovascular Imaging Community's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Randall C Thompson  1 , Kyle R Lehenbauer  2
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Editorial

The Cardiovascular Imaging Community's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Randall C Thompson et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; cardiac testing; cardiovascular disease; coronavirus cardiovascular imaging; diagnostic cardiovascular procedure.

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Conflict of interest statement

Funding Support and Author Disclosures The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute’s experience With Non-Invasive Procedural Volume Over the Course of the Pandemic CMR = cardiac magnetic resonance; CTA = computed tomography angiogram; PET/CT = positron emission tomography/computed tomography; SPECT = single-photon emission computed tomography.
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Comment on

  • Impact of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Testing in the United States Versus the Rest of the World.
    Hirschfeld CB, Shaw LJ, Williams MC, Lahey R, Villines TC, Dorbala S, Choi AD, Shah NR, Bluemke DA, Berman DS, Blankstein R, Ferencik M, Narula J, Winchester D, Malkovskiy E, Goebel B, Randazzo MJ, Lopez-Mattei J, Parwani P, Vitola JV, Cerci RJ, Better N, Raggi P, Lu B, Sergienko V, Sinitsyn V, Kudo T, Nørgaard BL, Maurovich-Horvat P, Cohen YA, Pascual TNB, Pynda Y, Dondi M, Paez D, Einstein AJ; INCAPS-COVID Investigators Group. Hirschfeld CB, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Sep;14(9):1787-1799. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.03.007. Epub 2021 Jun 16. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021. PMID: 34147434 Free PMC article.

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